# Nick Bradford

> Building Cursor

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nickbradford

Building Cursor - cloud agents.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cursor
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY
Building Cursor - cloud agents

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Ellipsis (YC W24)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
AI software engineers installed in your repo

### Founding AI Engineer @ Grit
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Built the leading LLM agent for large-scale codebase migrations (e.g. JavaScript => TypeScript)

### Machine Learning Research Resident @ Redwood Research
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
Mechanistic interpretability of transformer models (1-month mini-residency)

### Engineering Manager @ Hyperscience
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Led the product engineering team for extracting tabular data from images

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hyperscience
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Investment Engineer @ Bridgewater Associates
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Westport, Connecticut, United States
Portfolio optimization and trading algorithms

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Garage program - anomaly detection

### Software Research Intern @ Quantlab Financial, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Compilers for ultra-low latency in high-frequency trading systems

### Software Engineer Intern @ Silicon Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States


## Education
### W24
Y Combinator

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nsbradford
- Portfolio: https://www.nsbradford.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13